Swing Forest is an amateur big band Jazz Orchestra. This band is named as"Swing Forest", because the studio we've practiced in the earlier time is next to the "JR Ohmori station" which means "Big forest" in Japanese.

We mainly play the dance music composed in the good period for jazz from 1920's to 1950's, not only swing jazz but also waltz, tango, Latin, etc.. This band has been separated in 1989 from "Swing Jokers" that is an old traditional armature big band in KAWASAKI. At the same time "Swing Forest" was born. More than half members of "Swing Forest"have been belonging to "Swing Jokers", so their instrumental career are more than 30 years.
Our regular practice day is only once a month, every second Saturday. But we are keeping more than 300 numbers of repertoires.

Each members of our band have their own various kind of occupation. For example, the board member of venture, teachers, businessman, office worker, public servant,etc..

We've performed various kind of events, like concert, party, dance party, dinner show, wedding reception, port festival, Tokyo bay penetrate road (Aqua line) reception and craft market in front of temple, so on.
And we'd like to continue events like above script and to look forward making our debut as professional big band after retire.

The LOGO mark of band express that a G-clef stands for G of swinG and an F-clef stands for F of Forest. It means we hope a great ensemble between high-note instruments and low-note instruments.
Based on this consideration, Ms. TOKIE SHIRAI from TSURUKAWA MACHIDA city designed below logo for our band.


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